This is an analysis of the poem Interlude: The Hearth And The Window that begins with:

Thou cricket, that at dusk in the damp weeds,
all that, alack! my sickly garden breeds, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhXgii ccjjaakkllXXllhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110011 1110110101 10001101101 11011100101 0111111111 1011011111 0101101101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101001101 111101011 0101010101 11010101001 0101000101 1111010101 1111110101 0100010101 1101010111 11000010101 0101110101 11110101001 1101110101 1101110101 1011000100 0111011001 1011010101 1000011101 01001010101 1101110101 11110101010 11000100101 1111010101 11001010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 799
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this is repeated.

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